Re: ext3 journaling taking up HDD Space ?

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• Subject: Re: ext3 journaling taking up HDD Space ?
• From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: 22 Apr 2004 00:10:05 +0100
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Hi,

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 19:31, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> > Has anyone noticed 
> > ext3 journaling FS taking using up HDD space over time. 

> The journal feature does take up some finite amount of space. 

It does, yes, but that space does not ever grow over time.  

"du" is usually a good way of finding out where disk space is going to. 
If there is a genuine leak, "e2fsck -f" should find it.

Cheers,
 Stephen

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